East Kent
Around 450 people attended six events across east Kent, where we discussed the emerging models for local care and changes to hospital care for emergency services and specialist services including stroke, acute medicine and planned orthopaedic surgery.

West Kent
Approx. 200 people attended five events in west Kent. The events focused on developing local care, and plans for improving urgent care by strengthening NHS 111 and building urgent treatment centres at the main hospitals. There was also an update on the stroke review.

Medway
Medway has engaged with approx. 400 local people at three public engagement events, through focus groups, interviews with patients and a survey. Discussions were had about plans for an integrated health and wellbeing centre in central Chatham, working with local community, local care in Medway and ways of joining up services at local level and wrapping services around families.

People really appreciated that the public engagement events had a joined-up panel of experts on hand from Kent County Council or Medway Council, community services, mental health, and others, to respond to questions and take part in the round table discussions.

Further events are also being planned in Medway in the autumn and winter. For more details, visit their calendar.

North Kent
At the roadshows in Dartford, Gravesham and Swanley and Swale clinical commissioning group areas, conversations were had with 190 people during August alone about urgent care, how the NHS needs to work more closely together, and also the review of stroke services.

Listening events are now being planned for north Kent in October to talk to local people in more depth. If you’re interested in coming along, please email dgs.communications@nhs.net

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Transforming health and social care in Kent and Medway is a partnership of all the NHS organisations in Kent and Medway, Kent County Council and Medway Council. We are working together to develop and deliver the Sustainability and Transformation Plan (STP) for our area.